High quality information is the key to high quality care
Based on today’s best practices in healthcare information management, Clairvia Care Value Management provides caregivers with the real time data they need to make effective, evidence-based decision. Understanding the unique needs of individual healthcare organizations, the Clairvia support team can tailor your implementation to your existing systems:
- Based on 30 years of experience in software development for the healthcare industry
- Proven results in 200 successful installations, requiring minimal resources from IT
- Leverages existing IT systems through standard HL-7 interfaces
- Expert technical assistance provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
August 19th, 2010
Texting, as well as email-and Internet-enabled smartphones, have changed the way we communicate. Now, they can change the way you manage your scheduling needs, helping you cut waste and provide your team with up-to-date information anytime, anywhere.
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August 6th, 2010
Clairvia customer and highly respected national leader, Kathleen D. Sanford, RN, MA, DBA, FACHE., was interviewed by HFMA in July in an article titled “Staffing Issues: A Major Concern for Nursing.” Sanford, senior vice president and CNO of Catholic Health Initiatives raises very important questions such as truly understanding the cost of nursing services, and how CHI is addressing the business case for quality.
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June 7th, 2010
Part 1: Length of Stay
The other day I heard that even with increased taxes and program cutbacks, within a few years the rising costs of medical care would overcome those efforts to keep the US financially healthy. While we might not have “signed up” to solve the country’s financial problems, you can bet that those who did sign up to solve them will be putting huge pressure on the health care industry to control costs, while maintaining care quality.
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April 15th, 2010
“Web 2.0, Health 2.0, eHealth, patient-centric health care” – all buzz words we’ve heard in recent years referring to the exponentially rapid and continuous immersion into the information age. But what does this paradigm shift really mean for us in our everyday lives? What does this mean for the lives and well-being of our patients?
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March 18th, 2010
Like most people, I’ve been following the Healthcare Reform debate. A year ago, when it all began, we seemed to be about two problems — access and costs. But all the action to date has been around access – with the insurance industry in the cross hairs. Once something happens there, however, the attention will surely shift to costs, which I think will make access look like a much easier problem.
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March 1st, 2010
The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been instructed to “provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in healthcare spending.” As HHS seeks ways to get more for less, most of us believe value based purchasing (VBP) could be a transformational agent of change. In the article Healthcare reformers are focusing on value; are you?, published in the August, 2009 issue of Healthcare Financial Management, authors Hal Andrew and Gunter Wessels describe the proposed VBP programs, the challenges they pose to hospital executives, and some proactive steps leaders can take to maintain high performance on outcomes measures while controlling costs.
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